13th Guards Rifle Division

The 13th Guards Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Red Army that existed from 19 January 1942 to 1988. The division replaced the old Soviet 87th Rifle Division after Operation Barbarossa, and the division suffered extremely high losses at the Battle of Stalingrad. Of the 10,000 troops in the division, only 260 survived the battle, with 3,000 dying on the first day. The division was later refitted to fight at the Battle of Kursk, and the division took part in the push into the Ukraine, Poland, and Germany itself. The division ended the war in Berlin, and it was disbanded in 1988.